Originally Posted by Raspy
Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by DBT
Originally Posted by Raspy

God exist?....it's a fifty fifty chance....either God is or God is not...I do believe God does exist because when I die and then find out there really is something on the other side of the grave, whew, glory to God, as I tried to do the best I could all my life.


How do you calculate 50/50 chance? And why the God of the bible rather than Brahman the creative principle of Hinduism, for example?

Isn't it 50/50 between those two options without even considering any number of other possibilities?


Imagine a 6 sided die with an X on one side and the rest blank.

The only two possible results are X or blank, but the odd of getting an X are not 50/50, they are 1 in 6.

Bayesian analysis isn't just a combination of 50/50 outcomes.

Sorry...I don't get it....either there is or there is not a God...seems like that is 50/50 to me....


Either there is, or there is not a billion dollars in my bank account.

By your reasoning, because this is a binary choice, by chances of being a billionaire are 50/50.

However, there's only about 2,500 billionaires in a world of 7.5 billion people, so the odds are actually 1 in 3 million.

This is just one example of how a binary choice doesn't necessarily translate to even odds.


You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.

You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell